Nick Ellery wrote: > Looks like you've managed to solve the problem, closing the report. > > ** Changed in: ubuntu > Status: New => Invalid > > Regarding the above bug, I have discovered that the problem was not amule, which I had previously thought. The termination of the heavy disk usage and my terminating of amule proved to be just coincidence.
Without amule running, the problem has reoccurred several times. Using up-to-date Hardy Heron. Usually once a day, for up to an hour and a quarter or so, my computer goes into 100% disk occupancy with - for all intents and purposes - 100% CPU occupancy too. Although I have kept the System Monitor window open, it tells me nothing. The mouse pointer moves only very sporadically and when I click on the scroll bar of the System Monitor window to look at the processes at the bottom of the page, it takes about 3 minutes for the window to respond. The CPU time available to the System Monitor is so small that it cannot register changes in the CPU usage of processes. All register zero, apart from gnome-system-monitor which occasionally shows 3. The only way out of the situation is either to wait about an hour and a quarter for the process to finish or use the power button to force a harware shut-down. When I reboot, there are generally about a dozen or so orphaned inodes even though I had no applications open. Tracker is set to nice=19. Its tool tip indicates that it has been paused by the system while this heavy usage is going on. To confirm or eliminate my suspicion of Tracker, I have uninstalled it using Synaptic. I will have to wait and see if this cures the problem. I will leave it a week and let you know. In the meantime, if you have any ideas... Rob Morton -- Hardy Heron locks up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249123 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
